Holiday Refresher

Hello darlings. Forgive the long wait. Things have been crazy hectic but I promise you I have my reasons. I thought you all deserved an update on my shenanigans so here it is!

Let's see, let's see... Well. I left you off at Thanksgiving, yes?

Alrighty. It turns out that I auditioned for All State for the second year in a row on the first day of vacation aaaaaaaaaaaaand I GOT IN! Which was honestly a surprise to me seeing as I absolutely recked my audition (and not in the good way...) and ON TOP OF THAT they do this little thing called ranking for each vocal part (I'm a soprano) and last year I got ranked #17 in the state. But for some reason I HAVE YET TO UNDERSTAND, this year I got ranked #6 in the ENTIRE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.

So. That happened. You can tell I'm obviously not excited about it whatsoever :)

I'm also gonna be in the Treble Choir (all female) this year and I'm definitely looking forward to that. It'll be... interesting, seeing as last year I was in the mixed choir.

ANYWHO. I spent an absolutely LOVELY vacation in Vermont with my nearest and dearest <3 I got them to watch Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them and oh my lord, I'm just gonna stop right there cuz otherwise I'm just gonna keep going and going and going about that beautiful piece of art.

Since I had to return early with YD and my dorm wasn't open yet, I had to stay the night at RISD with the bro and his roommate, Nevin. Not gonna lie, I was a tad skeptical at first because scary college dorm with scary artsy college kids but OHMYGOD IT WAS SO FREAKING FUN. It was honestly like a big kid sleepover and we ended up talking 'til 2am. It was far more enjoyable than my stricter dorm life back at school. I am beyond ready for college.

Next big thing, let's see... Ah, well, the first day back always marks the first day of auditions for the Winter Musical and this year it happens to be... *drumroll please*...

Legally Blonde.

I know.

Wild.

Smidgen lighter than Anne Frank.

At first, none of us were particularly excited about the prospect of having to only look at pink for the next three months, let alone have to act like valley girl sorority sisters 24/7, but I will tell you the idea grew on us. We were definitely in need of a change.

The audition process was perhaps the longest the Abbey's ever had. Two days of auditions but on the second day, we stayed for a total of five hours. Five entire hours. It was rough to say the least.

AND it might've been the longest time Bray-Bray decided to let us wait before he put up the cast list. Wasn't until 12:42pm that I received that email. You can imagine how I slept the night before.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce that I will be playing the next Elle Woods, and yes, I will be dyeing my hair blonde.

But that's a whole other matter of discussion.

Rehearsals have been quite long and fatiguing but that much is expected.

What else am I missing? Hmm. Well the past two weeks have been a tad stressful for a number of reasons but I don't think I'll go into that. Besides, I only have four more days of school before holiday break, so things are looking up for me.

Oh! I spent a total of five hours yesterday working with Emmalene and a few others on holiday cards for homeless veterans. If anything, I felt like I was definitely contributing some kind of good in the world. Granted, my artistic skills are extremely rusty so some of them I'm afraid ended up looking like Kindergartner's work. HOWEVER, the ones I actually spent hours doing looked a lot more lovely and I do not consider my time at all wasted. I would be happy to do it again sometime :)

TOMORROW IS MY DORM'S XMAS PARTY AND WE'RE DOING SECRET SANTA AND I'M SO EXCITED AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and I'm also lowkey excited to give my friends their Christmas gifts because holy shit I'm so good at that.

I have three tests between now and Thursday. Pray for me so I don't die.

Ummmmmmmm.

OHMYGOD SO IT SNOWED LAST NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME AND IT ACTUALLY STUCK TO THE GROUND AND EVERYTHING LOOKED SO BEAUTIFUL AND PRISTINE AND IT WAS OFFICIALLY A WINTER WONDERLAND AND NOBODY WILL TELL ME ANY DIFFERENT.

not even the rain that washed it away this morning.

I'm really looking forward to this holiday because God knows we all need it.

I think that's about all I can remember, folks.

Best of luck to all of you taking exams and writing stressful papers and auditioning and performing and the like. I believe in you all. You can do it!!!

For some odd reason, I've been feeling a lotta feels lately and I kinda feel like spreading the love so my apologies if I'm coming off a bit strong. Not like that's ever stopped me before.

I love you I love you I love you

Hasta la próxima,

Much love xoxo

Maya